Ikea Offering Bike Trailer To Get Stuff Home

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That would be a disaster waiting to happen. I doubt we will ever see those in America. Just getting people to ride a bike is hard. To have people haul their own stuff. Yeah right. 99% of people would never think of using a bike to move heavy loads. I'm preaching to the choir...

That's not a bad trailer. Well, at least it's better than my flat bed conversion. I'd like to see shots of how the side panels are done to keep stuff from shifting into the wheel spokes. Yeah, I know... I got a ActionPacker(tm) already.

That would be a disaster waiting to happen. I doubt we will ever see those in America. Just getting people to ride a bike is hard. To have people haul their own stuff. Yeah right. 99% of people would never think of using a bike to move heavy loads. I'm preaching to the choir...

Actually, I can imagine this would work just fine at some US Ikea's, especially in big cities or college towns... I've been to the Ikea in New Haven CT, and the one in South Philly, and they'd be perfect for this.